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Caramella Skin Couture combines traditional European skin and body care with the latest advances in facial therapy and body sculpting. The spa offers a variety of luxurious, effective treatments. Learn more...

See the best-loved musical comedy revue that has been wowing audiences for more than 30 years: Beach Blanket Babylon! This zany musical spoof of pop culture is world-renowned for its extravagant costumes, huge hats and biting satire. Learn more...

Shopping! The Musical, by award-winning writer Morris Bobrow, is San Francisco's longest-running original show. A hit since its 2006 premiere, Shopping is a musical comedy revue about everyone's second favorite (in some cases, favorite) activity. Hilarious songs and sketches about the frustrations, annoyances and occasional joys of shopping. Learn more...

Unwind with a Happy Hour Cruise. Set sail with drinks and snacks on a classic 1950s motor vessel which recalls the glory days of the Barbary Coast. Cruise the City's beautiful waterfront and the Bay Bridge and enjoy the views. Your ticket includes two drinks and snacks. Learn more...

Enjoy a beautiful sunset on the water and then return to the shimmering city lights while enjoying a delicious dinner prepared fresh onboard by Hornblower's chefs. Spend the rest of the cruise dancing to live music. The trip includes a four-course dinner, cash bar, live band, and breathtaking bay views. Learn more...

Rick Evans, whose San Francisco Architecture Walking Tour is a long-running hit on Goldstar, presents his newest tour. The Chinatown Walking Tour is a two-hour journey through this famous neighborhood, presenting fascinating facts about its history and architecture. Covering legendary and obscure landmarks, the tour is designed to fascinate and inform visitors and locals alike. Learn more...

Featured on KRON-TV and KCBS radio, the award-winning Big City Improv performs improv comedy in the style of TV's Whose Line Is It Anyway?. They were voted "Best of the Bay" by the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Learn more...

Take a two-hour drive through the city in GoCar, the world's first GPS-guided tour car that not only directs you to your destinations, but also tells you stories about the sites. The GPS system will automatically guide your two-person car as you explore the Bay Area! Learn more...

Explore the Gothic side of San Francisco's Nob Hill with this incredible Vampire Tour, led by Mina Harker, a real vampiress. Not gory or dark, this tour combines San Francisco history with vampire lore and humor, and has been delighting Goldstar Events' customers since January 2004! Learn more...

Feel the wind in your hair and the sun on your face as you get the absolute best view of the bay on the only hop-on hop-off double-decker tour of the Golden Gate Bridge and Sausalito, inluding many of San Francisco's famous sites like Fisherman's Wharf, The Presidio and Vista Point. All tours are narrated by live, profession tour guides. Learn more...

Enjoy a guided bike tour over the Golden Gate Bridge aboard UltraMotor A2B electric bike, This new bike allows riders to choose betwen pedaling, electric motor power, or both, to ensure nobody is left behind. The tour follows the scenic Bay Trail before crossing the legendary bridge to Sausalito; the tour concludes with a ferry ride back to San Francisco. Learn more...

The Marsh presents Don Reed in East 14th: Tales of a Reluctant Player. This hilarious and poignant solo show is the story of Reed's boyhood in 1970s Oakland, torn between his strict, church-going mother's upbringing and his admiration of his father, a pimp. East 14th was an Off-Broadway hit, nominated for two 2008 NAACP Theatre Awards. Learn more...

The Comedy Club at Castagnola's presents top stand-up comics. Located in Castagnola's Restaurant, a historic venue overlooking Fisherman's Wharf, the show features the best rising stars on the Bay Area comedy scene, plus hilarious headliners from San Francisco and beyond. Learn more...

Comedy Off Broadway Oakland features comedians featured on Comedy Central, HBO, BET, the late night talk shows and more, right in the heart of downtown Oakland. The comedy club features an intimate setting with an appetizer menu and wine and bar service. Learn more...

The SF Playhouse presents She Stoops to Comedy, a playful, gender-bending show by one of New York's most innovative writer/performers, David Greenspan. Set in a summer-stock production of Shakespeare's As You Like It, actress Alexandra Page schemes to woo back her estranged female lover by playing Orlando (who everyone knows is a man) opposite her lover's Rosalind. A bevy of unexpected romances ensue. Learn more...

Two couples enjoy an evening of nonsensical conversation in a comedy considered to be one of the classics of absurdist theater. The first play penned by Eugène Ionesco, The Bald Soprano takes place in the home of the Smiths, a traditional London couple who have invited the Martins over for dinner. Their increasingly odd banter is anything but traditional, however. Learn more...

Theatresports is an entertaining and engaging night of theater presented as a competition. Every show features two teams of improvisers performing a variety of scenes, quirky games and musical numbers which are scored by judges. At the end of the night, one team wins, moving closer to the title of Clash of the Heroes Tournament Championship. Learn more...

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Lost My Virginity is the one-woman show of Aileen Clark (part John Lequizamo, part Mike Myers), chronicling her true life story about being the whitest latinita on the planet, finding life in death and learning why you shouldn't fall in love with men who act like your father (especially if said men happen to be gay). Learn more...

David Mamet's two-character play invites the audience to make stunning discoveries about power, education, privilege and sexual misconduct as a series of teacher-student one-on-ones turns into intriguing and emotional drama when the teacher's tenure is threatened by accusations of sexual misconduct. Learn more...

Daughter of a jazz trombonist and goddaughter of musical legends Quincy Jones and Dinah Washington, performer, songwriter and vocalist Patti Austin crosses musical genres and has released 16 albums, performing her award-nominated hit songs on the Grammys and the Oscars. Known for one of her biggest hits "How Do You Keep The Music Playing?", Austin comes to Yoshi's for an evening of beautiful music. Learn more...

Contra Costa Civic Theatre presents a madcap musical murder mystery farce from the authors of Ragtime. In Lucky Stiff, nerdy English shoe salesman Harry Witherspoon has a chance to inherit six million dollars from his late uncle, a casino manager from Atlantic City. But to get it, he must take his uncle's corpse on a trip to Monte Carlo. Learn more...

Continuing its world premiere run at StageWerx in San Francisco, the shocking comedy The Afterlife of the Mind centers on Lydia, who is desperate to prevent her famous philosopher husband Harry from dying of a rare illness. She enlists a shady but brilliant neurosurgeon to perform a brain transplant, but a botched procedure leads her to push the limits of her love. Learn more...

Funk veterans Confunkshun play at the Rrazz Room. Led by singer/guitarist Michael Cooper, the platinum-selling funk band had eight top-ten R&B hits between 1977 and 1986, including the chart-topping "Ffun" and "Love's Train." They're known for their dazzling vocal harmonies, inventive horn arrangements and infectious on-stage enthusiasm. Learn more...

The late Harry Chapin penned over two dozen songs for this progressive musical retelling of the Gospels of Matthew and John, transported to modern day, rural Georgia. Based on the book by civil rights activist Clarence Jordan, Cotton Patch Gospel uses a rousing bluegrass score -- performed by a one actor playing scores of roles, a live bluegrass band and three stunning singers. Learn more...

Beautiful Thing is the story of two working class London teenage boys who fall in love, the shy Jamie and the charming and handsome next door neighbor, Ste. The boys' attraction to one another is quickened by Ste's difficult home life and the well-meaning intentions of Jamie's mother. Her love and patience are tested as she finds out the truth about the boys' unexpected relationship. Learn more...

Martha, the daughter of the college president, much to the consternation of her husband, George, a "forty something" professor of history, invites an ambitious young academic and his naive wife for late night drinks. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a dark brilliant comedy about the private lives and painful secrets of the two couples, written by three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Edward Albee. Learn more...

Nick Griffin has been doing stand-up for over 20 years. He's toured across the country, and his many TV appearances include his own half-hour Comedy Central special and five appearances on the Late Show with David Letterman. He's a hilarious performer and a consummate professional, and he headlines Punch Line Comedy Club. Learn more...

Set in 1838, As It is in Heaven explores issues of faith through the eyes of nine women in a Shaker village. When a newcomer to the community begins experiencing visions, the older members, who have seen none, begin to question their own devotion to the Way. Alternately dramatic and comic, the play reflects the simplicity of the lifestyle it depicts, and is punctuated by Shaker songs sung a cappella. Learn more...

Tim Miller's new solo performance piece Lay of the Land offers a humorous yet pointed examination of the current state of gay life in America. Making its Bay Area premiere at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the show mixes the personal and the political as it ventures from childhood memories to Proposition 8 protests. Learn more...

First presented on stage in 1959, The Miracle Worker is about teacher Annie Sullivan's heroic effort to give the blind, deaf and mute 12-year-old Helen Keller the gift of language. This Tony-winning drama is powerful, lyrical and an all-time favorite for the whole family. Learn more...

Fresh from Broadway, Mamet's new comedy November takes a satirical stab at American politics. President Charles Smith, the most corrupt buffoon ever to sit in the Oval Office, is in the final days of his bid for re-election, but the country is a mess and his poll numbers are low. Toss in a lesbian speechwriter longing to marry her sweetheart on TV, Thanksgiving turkeys awaiting pardon, and a ton of shady back-room scheming and you've got Mamet's latest. Learn more...

The Jewish Community Center of San Francisco presents Irving Berlin's I Love a Piano. In this blockbuster musical revue, six talented singers will perform more than 60 songs. Berlin wrote many of American music's most unforgettable tunes, from "Alexander's Ragtime Band" and "There's No Business Like Show Business" to "God Bless America" and "White Christmas." Learn more...

Dan Hoyle's tings dey happen is an award-winning adventure story about the year Hoyle studied oil politics in Nigeria, the "new Middle East" of oil security. Traveling alone through the swamps of the Niger Delta, he befriended militants, warlords, prostitutes and diplomats. Dan plays them all in this solo performance, which just completed a tour of Nigeria, sponsored by the U.S. State Department. Learn more...

John Kolvenbach's Mrs. Whitney is the hilarious sequel to his previous play, Goldfish. What happens when a cynic by trade takes to the road in the hopes of reuniting with her one true (albeit messy) love? When her most prized possession leaves the nest, Margaret Whitney reluctantly chooses to follow her heart. Learn more...

For the fourth straight year, Un-Scripted Theater Company presents Let It Snow!, a two-hour, completely improvised holiday musical filled with Broadway-style singing and dancing. No two shows are the same, since the audience will suggest locations and themes that will be incorporated into each performance. Learn more...

Henry Cho's comedy draws on his upbringing as a Korean-American in Tennessee. A frequent guest on The Tonight Show, Henry had an hour-long Comedy Central special, What's That Clickin' Noise? Henry's film credits include Material Girls and the Farrelly brothers' Say it Isn't So. Learn more...

The Golden State Warriors host the Portland Trail Blazers in Friday night NBA action. The Warriors feature Stephen Jackson, rising star Anthony Randolph, and high-scoring rookie Stephen Curry; the Blazers' stars include versatile guard Brandon Roy and big man LaMarcus Aldridge. Learn more...

Internationally renowned performance artist Penny Arcade presents her show New York Values at the Marsh. A former member of Andy Warhol's Factory and innovator of performance art in the '80s, Arcade takes on bourgeois bohemians and explores the relationships between art, individuality, crime and rebellion in this freewheeling mixture of storytelling, monologues, music and dance. Learn more...

Stateless weaves a century of German, Jewish and African American history with contemporary hip-hop music, beat-box vocal rhythms and vaudeville. The play is inspired by the true story of co-writer Dan Wolf's family history, beginning with his great-grandfather, who was part of a singing group responsible for one of the most popular songs in German history. Learn more...

A middle-aged couple awakes in a beautiful summer house on a hill, surrounded by trees and glimpses of water. There's just one problem. They can't remember their own names, much less the relationship between them. Their pursuit of memory yields both comic and terrifying results, leaving them adrift on a leaky raft of postmodern anxiety. A suspenseful and mysterious exploration of the deep relationship between memory and identity. Learn more...

Golden Thread Productions presents ReOrient 2009 - The First Ten Years. The annual festival of short plays exploring the modern Middle East celebrates its tenth anniversary with two separate programs and nine total plays. Comedies and dramas feature topics including love, international relations and the clash between the Middle East's modern culture and its ancient traditions. See below for a full schedule. Learn more...